Introduction to Course 9.04, Vision and Audition
Vision: Peter H. Schiller
Audition: Chris Brown
Reading assignments
Lectures
Research reports
Exams
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Grade breakdown:
Written report, vision
Midterm exam
Written report, audition
Final exam
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10%
25%
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55% (Vision, 15%, Audition, 40%)
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Introductions
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What aspects of visual processing
are we trying to understand?
The layout and organization of the visual system
Adaptation and Color vision
Movement processing
Depth perception
Object recognition
Generation of visually guided eye movements
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Schedule for the section on the visual system:
Sep 9:
The basic layout of the retina and the lateral geniculate nucleus
Sep 11: The visual cortex
Sep 16: The ON and OFF channels
Sep 18: The midget and parasol channels
Sep 23: Adaptation and color
Sep 25: Depth perception
Sep 30: Form perception
Oct 2:
Illusions and visual prosthesis
Oct 7:
The neural control of visually guided eye movements, 1
Oct 9:
The neural control of visually guided eye movements, 2
Oct 16: Motion perception and pursuit eye movements
Oct 21: Overview
Oct 23: Midterm exam
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Tools of the trade:
Psychophysics
Anatomy
Electrophysiology
Pharmacology
Brain lesions
Imaging
Optogenetics
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Psychophysics
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Anatomy
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Monkey brain
central sulcus
Central Sulcus
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Principalis
cipalis
Lunate
Arcuate
lunate
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Fovea
Optic nerve
Human Retina
Foveal cone density: 200,000/sqmm
Foveal cone density: 200,000/sqmm
5 degrees out: 20,000/sqmm
5 degrees out: 20,000/sqmm
10 degrees out: 10,000/sqmm
10 degrees out: 10,000/sqmm
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Coronal section of monkey LGN
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Please see lecture video or Figure 4A from Schiller, Peter H., Edward J. Tehovnik.
"Visual Prosthesis." Perception 37, no. 10 (2008): 1529.
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Golgi stain
Procion Yellow labeling of a single cell
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Electrophysiology
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Pharmacology
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Brain inactivation
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Imaging
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Figure 1B,D. Pfeuffer, Joseph, Hellmut Merkle, Michael Beyerlein, Thomas Steudel, and Nikos K. Logothetis. Anatomical and functional MR
imaging in the macaque monkey using a vertical large-bore 7 Tesla setup." Magnetic resonance imaging 22, no. 10 (2004): 1343-1359.
Courtesy of Elesevier Inc., http://www. sciencedirect.com. Used with permission.
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Please refer to lecture video.
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Please refer to lecture video.
Logothetis, N, Merkle H, Augath M, Trinath T, Ugurbil K. "Ultra high-resolution
fMRI in monkeys with implanted RF coils." Neuron 35, no. 2 (2002): 227-242.
Courtesy of Elesevier, Inc., http://www.sciencedirect.com. Used with permission.
Optogenetics
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